The COVID-19 pandemic has only accelerated the importance of creativity in the workplace. Many organizations are realizing that creativity plays a role not only in successful marketing, communications, and R&D but also in maintaining a productive and engaged workforce during these unprecedented times. Psychologists have explained that this crisis might actually boost creativity, especially among Millennials and Generation Z, who are seeking ways to apply their creativity towards meaningful work....

Back in 2018, Google introduced a super-fast way of creating a new Google Docs file from anywhere in a browser. Typing in docs.new in the URL box creates a new document. Sheets.new starts a new spreadsheet. Keep.new creates a new note. And so on and so forth. Now you can use the same trick to start a Hangouts Google Meet call from any browser. Just type in meet.new in the URL box and you’ll immediately create a new room and be provided a URL to share with others....

Five decades later and 50 miles downstate, over 12 hours this April and fueled by Monster energy drinks in a spare bedroom in Princeton, New Jersey, Ji-Sung Kim wrote an algorithm to teach a computer to teach itself to play jazz. Kim, a 20-year-old Princeton sophomore, was in a rush – he had a quiz the next morning. The resulting neural network project, called deepjazz, trended on GitHub, generated a buzz of excitement and skepticism from the Hacker News commentariat, got 100,000 listens on SoundCloud, and was big in Japan....

In view of recent findings from the University of Cambridge that most firms involved in crypto investments are still operating without a license, other operators are potentially vulnerable to indictments too. It all sounds like bad news for anyone hoping that more investors will put money into cryptocurrencies. But on a closer inspection, I’m not so sure. Drops and oceans? The FCA is preventing retail investors from buying and selling the likes of cryptocurrency futures and options, which people often use as a way of hedging their bets on an underlying asset....

When you do a fast search around the web for the best language learning apps, you’ll find lots of different Best Of lists. And when you start pouring through which services all these outlets think are the pinnacle, you’ll inevitably see some of the same names featured everywhere. From CNET to PCMag, the cream rises to the top — and the name that appears on all of those lists is Babbel Language Learning....

If you’re working with spreadsheets on a regular basis, you know that it’s important to keep your tables of data easy to explore and digest. You can do this by cleaning your data, and by styling and structuring your data appropriately. For instance, you could freeze your top header row, in order to keep it in place when you’re scroll down your table of data. You do this by selecting the row, hitting the View menu item, and then Freeze, and picking 1 row....

In our Holy Sheet article series, we’re exploring all the things you can do with Google Sheets aside from simple number crunching, from tracking your stocks to scraping contact details from websites. Today, we have a welcome surprise for all the news junkies among the Google Sheets nerds. Let’s first start with the basics… Google Sheets has a nifty little function called =IMPORTFEED, which allows you to pull the latest content items – blog posts, news articles – from online publications using their RSS or XML feed URL....

A survey conducted in January, before the COVID-19, found that 64% of the UK workforce wants to set up their own business. We all know that one of the biggest factors that govern startup success is ‘timing’ — and the truth is, there has never been a better time to take a leap. So, what should you do if you are currently still in work, but you know that your employer will be making cuts and you are likely to be a casualty?...

Yesterday, the blue oval announced that it will be adding the extra hardware and software functionality to its Co-Pilot360 advanced driver assist system (ADAS) next year. The new tech will let drivers hand over a significant amount of control to the vehicle and drive “hands-free,” however, drivers must remain cognizant of the road at all times. [Read: Lyft gives itself a comfortable 10-year deadline to make all its vehicles electric] Ford’s all-electric Mustang Mach-E sports utility vehicle will be the first to get the new tech in late 2021....

This material is largely hosted on the anonymous part of the internet — the “darknet” – where perpetrators can share it with little fear of prosecution. There are currently a few platforms offering anonymous internet access, including i2p, FreeNet and Tor. Tor is by far the largest and presents the biggest conundrum. The open-source network and browser grants users anonymity by encrypting their information and letting them escape tracking by internet service providers....

Apple has introduced a ton of security and privacy features in iOS 14 including blocking trackers and knowing which apps used your camera and mic. However, one of the most useful features in the newest iOS update will let you know if your password is compromised in a data breach. Here’s how you can check. Open the Settings app on your iPhone. Scroll down and tap on the Passwords section....

Amidst the many morsels businesses are throwing consumers in an attempt to mitigate the hellishness is the coronavirus quarantine, T-Mobile is stepping in with 2 months of free YouTube Premium as part of its “T-Mobile Tuesdays” rewards program. T-Mobile’s rewards already included free Netflix, but now users can redeem two months of free YouTube Premium. Just to catch up anyone who may be unaware, Premium is YouTube’s subscription service that lets you duck its omnipresent ads, allow videos to play in the background on your phone even after you close the app, and also lets you download videos for later viewing....

Are fake followers hindering your influence in the Twittersphere? Do you want to get rid of them once and for all? I’m here to show you how. You could manually go through your followers list, find fake profiles, and unfollow them one by one, but who’s got time for that? In this article you’ll discover a couple of tools to help you find and remove fake followers – and you won’t have to spend ages doing it!...

So you, like most everyone out there, love posting on Instagram. Selfies, food shots, travel photos… you do it all, and your followers love you for it. Or maybe you’re a lesser-known ‘grammer and want to create a little something to commemorate how you’ve done this year or see what your friends enjoyed most. Nine-square grid collages on Instagram aren’t new, but the trend of doing a year-end best-of really kicked off in 2018, with big names like Beyonce and Kim Kardashian doing them....

That’s not much time to prepare, especially for companies entrusted to protect customer data. With the enactment of the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) in 2018, the European Union became the world leader in data protection. In our increasingly data-driven world, GDPR hands power back to everyday internet users and streamlines the transfer of data to third parties without the same protections in place. With the UK heading out on its own, implications of leaving GDPR may find companies having to navigate their own version of regulations....

Whether you’re looking for that hilarious joke you tweeted last year, or worried that some of your old tweets might contain embarrassing information, there are several ways to go about finding you old posts. In fact, you can reacquaint yourself with the first tweet relatively easily (spoiler: it doesn’t involve scrolling through countless times). With this in mind, we’ve put together a handy guide to help you re-discover your timeline....

Instagram announced today it’ll let you flag posts for false content. The feature will start rolling out to users in the US from today, and it’ll roll out to other parts of the world within two weeks. Right now this feature is only available on Instagram’s mobile apps. Here’s how you can report a post: Open the Instagram app on your phone, and head to the post you want to report....

Instagram’s one of the prime social networks, and its ads are sometimes marginally less obtrusive than the likes of its big brother, Facebook. But they’re still there and they can be a nuisance — especially if you’re getting ads that have nothing to do with what you’re interested in. Instagram provides a way for you to see what it thinks your interests are, so you can see what kinds of ads it’s going to serve you....

Read: How to watch Netflix, Hulu, and other streaming services offline So if you share your Prime account with family or friends, here’s how you set up profiles for them. And that’s it! Now you’ll be able to set up profiles for friends, and their binge-watching of Marvelous Mrs. Maisel won’t interfere with your Good Omens-inspired recommendations. Good luck!

It’s election year in the US, which means you’re probably going to see lots of political ads. While some social media platforms have banned them — such as Twitter — Facebook has yet to do so. But luckily, as of this June, it does offer an option to shut them off yourself. Facebook’s history with political ads, and politics in general, is a complicated and unpleasant one. Suffice to say the platform’s infamous for hosting a great deal of disinformation, much of it centered in the political sphere, and several ads have had some nasty imagery accompanying them....